Advertisement

Advertising

Public Health

The Public Health duty of Birmingham City Council was legally established in April 2013. It has inherited a number of functions and commissioning responsibilities, some of which were traditionally the responsibility of non-public health areas within the former Primary Care Trusts. With these responsibilities has come a ring-fenced centrally allocated grant.

There are five core mandatory public health functions which are:

Appropriate access to sexual health services

Ensuring there are plans in place to protect the health of the population, including immunisation and screening plans